New Belgium La Folie

Brewed by New Belgium Brewing Company
Style: Sour Ale
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

(750ml corked and caged bottle) Pours a red amber, nice head and lacing. Nose of sour and funky cherries and oak. Taste of sour patch kids, sour fruit. Great linger and complex all around. Some vinous tastes here too. A great woody, oaky sour beer with tons of flavor.

Reddish/brown witha good amount of off white head. sour cherry vinegar makes your mouth water. oaky flavor is all tart cherry and sour lemons wood flavor in the finish

Pours a dark mahogany color with a tannish head. Nose of balsamic vinaigrette, cherries, and super sour...love it. Tastes like balsamic vinaigrette, sour cherry that stings the tongue, sour apples, oak, and...well that’s about it...I really enjoy this. Very dry finish...just burped it up...very carbonated but not overly so...this beer is simply heaven after a long ass day.

Bottled, tasting session. Reddish color, short head. Bit sourish aroma, some cherry. Sour taste as well, again bit fruity, some wood. Nice stuff.

Pours reddish brown like it says. No head at all. Sour on the nose. Light to medium body with ample residual effers. It’s all sour cherries, cured meat, sour bratten like my aunt used to make, citrus rind. Not a hint of sweet fruit rather dry as a bony carcass weathered by the hot desert floor. Drinks better as it warms.
Earlier Rating: 7/27/2007 Total Score: 3.3
This brew pours a beautifull iridescent brownish amber color w/ a full, rather shortlived froth. The spritzy head reduces to a thing ring of lace and a partial canopy. Aromas are like red Rhone wines with it’s acidic, earthy tones yet also hits you in the face with a stinging sourness. Light to medium nectar w/ expansive residual effers on the palate. The texture is a little unrefined and gritty rather than soft and pillowy. My first impression is..let me take another sip, and another. Fnally I am ready to take this one head on. An earthy specimen w/ nuances of musty olive meat and aged leather. Extremely soured w/ a pungent acidity that could desolve that fat off the most decadent of meals. Bracingly dry, not a drop of sweetness. Minute describables like sulpher, lime, sodium, cured meat, wood, underripened grapes, cherries, and after you pour in the lees a defined Herdez Jelapano essence appears. Tastes like a cave. The finish is sour yet shortlived and bittered from the acid spectrum. Overall: this brew is very complex. It just seems to be lacking a bit in certan areas as you will see in my component breakdown. If you like the Sour beers though, add this one to you must have list.

Bottle pours very dark red color with light tan head. Aroma is nail polish, wood, is very acidic. Earthy mouthfeel. Flavor is sour apple, tart, very aggressive, acidic, and finishes dry. This is a real pleasure and is real hard to drink at the same time. I like it!

Black, ruby red colored brew. Sour aroma. Sour, apple, very intense sourness, and very longlasting. Enjoyable, but hard to drink.

22 oz, wish i could of tried the original 750ml version. This was Ok, a bit expensive for what it was. Dark cola color with some cola flavors. sourness was light with medium to light texture and complexity. Could see improvement with 6 months of bottle age but not much. Fun to try and was similar to the draft version sampled a month or so prior at downtown johnny browns in SD.